Download - Jisc Monitor workshop - Jo Lambert and Brian Mitchell - Jisc Digital Festival 2014

Jo Lambert and Brian Mitchell

Jisc Monitor Workshop – Jisc Digital Festival

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Workshop aims

» Reflections on Jisc APC

» Jisc Monitor aims

» Workshop activity

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Jisc APC Pilot: aims & objectives

APCs Systems and processes

Information sharing Role of 3rd party provider

Sustainability


Some reflections to date

» Compliance and reporting requirements

» Workflows and processes still being established

» Managing communications

» Infrastructures not yet in place

» Standards - lack of/not fully adopted


Reflections on the Jisc APC platform

» Level of APCs

» Publisher engagement

» Financial transactions

» Data flow and exchange with other key systems

» Value of an intermediary service


Jisc Monitor context

» Reflecting and building on outputs of Jisc APC

» HEFCE policy from Jan 2016 is likely to mandate Open Access availability for all journal and conference proceedings submitted to REF 2020

» 1 year project starting April 2014 to scope and explore how a Jisc managed shared service might support institutions in meeting this requirement


Jisc Monitor outputs

› Prototypes mapped to 4 use cases and released as free and open source software by April 2015

› Supported by robust user feedback and an assessment of the opportunities, challenges and dependencies that are likely to impact development

› Recommendations for further development of components

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Use cases

Monitoring all publication activity to ensure compliance with funder

mandates

Monitoring all publication activity to ensure a clear understanding of

what has been published

Standards development to enable efficient data exchange

Monitoring spend on all items

Jisc Monitor use cases

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Jisc Monitor principles

» Collaboration is key

» User-centred development

» Agile approach

» Open-source

OA Landscape


Compliance with funder mandates

» Jisc Monitor analyses the publication data to determine whether they are compliant with funders’ mandates


Understanding what has been published

» Jisc Monitor aggregates data from various sources in the form of a database / knowledge base of an institution’s publication activity


Standards and interoperability

» Jisc Monitor connects publisher and institution systems to collate publication data from the point of manuscript submission to acceptance of manuscript and subsequent publication


Monitoring spend

» Jisc Monitor provides data on how much an institution has spent on their OA publications and subscriptions


Workshop activity

» 20 minute group activity

» 10 minute feedback

» Select a use case and reflect on the following questions:

› What are the key challenges for your institution?

› How are you addressing those challenges within your institution?

› How can Jisc support you in addressing these challenges? (local, national, international). What should our priorities be?